[Launch Alert] Launch Delayed

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MISSILE DEFENSE TEST DELAYED
Vandenberg AFB News Release

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The scheduled Missile Defense Agency ground-based interceptor system test was delayed due to weather constraints in Alaska. The test was rescheduled to Friday with a launch window from 7 to 11 a.m.  

During the evaluation, an interceptor launched from the Ronald W. Reagan Missile Defense Site here will be tested against a target missile, launched from Alaska’s Kodiak Island.
  
The main objective of the test will be to exercise the operational configuration of the interceptor missile.